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Dr. Yu-Ru Lin's work covered by Pitt News Services

ISP Faculty, Dr. Yu-Ru Lin's work on "Understanding How Emotions Ripple After Terrorist Acts" has been featured in the Pitt News Services. It covers her joint work with Dr. Drew Margolin on how twitter reacted to the Boston bombings. You can read the full article here.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh an $11 million, four-year grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence, an initiative that will help biomedical scientists capitalize more fully on large amounts of available data and to make data science a more prominent component of biomedical research. The Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery (CCMD) is a collaboration of researchers at Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and Yale University. The Center will develop and implement causal modeling and discovery algorithms to help address several key biomedical problems, including the discovery of cell signals that drive the development of cancer, the molecular basis for the onset and progression of several lung diseases, and the functional connections within the human brain. Dr. Gregory Cooper is the Center Director and an ISP faculty member, as are several other CCMD investigators. Additional information is available at http://bd2k.nih.gov/FY14/COE/COE.html.

Roya Hosseini and Peter Brusilovsky win the best paper award at EC-TEL '14

Our paper on Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference On Technology Enhanced Leaning (EC-TEL 2014). More details available here on the EC-TEL's news page.

Stephen Casner's work highlighted in the New Yorker

ISP Alumni, Stephen Casner's work on "Cockpit Automation" has been covered by the New Yorker in the article titled "The Hazards of Going on Autopilot" written by Maria Konnikova. You can read the article here.

Dr. Casner graduated from the Intelligent Systems Program with a PhD degree in 1990. He has been working since then to make flying safer by studying the human-computer interaction in the cockpit.

Diane Litman's paper selected as the ISCA best paper (2011-2013)

ISP faculty, Diane Litman's joint work with Katherine Forbes-Riley has been awarded the ISCA Best Paper Published in Speech Communication (2011-2013). The paper was selected by the Speech Communication editorial board under the coordination of Bernd Möbius, Editor-in-Chief and can be found under the following title: